020262 Accession Number: 020262

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General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, (left) with Lieutenant General J. D. Lavarack, returning from an inspection of a crater caused by a direct hit from a bomb dropped by a British aircraft on a Vichy ammunition depot near Beirut.

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Accession Number
020262
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
29 August 1941
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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